“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.” KindChildrenUseTodayYoungValuesGoalTermInterestReligiousSimplePracticeConditionsTasteOur ChildrenMethodInstitutionsInvestmentEducationalRationalAll KindsCorporateCapitalistElitesCommodityRulingDisturbing Author:Jack Zipes
“Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.” MindMadeStatesCausesPracticeTeachingChangedSweetTasteDiseaseRootsBitterPoisonState Of MindDeep ThoughtCastesNectarRoot CauseUntouchabilityHindu Religion Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.” NeedsHumansPersonsPracticeAtheismExampleTastePositive AtheismHuman LifeEnlightened Book:Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government Source: Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government
“In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.” ChildrenDifferentFactsHomeAgeSchoolFormSpacePracticeTeacherStudentsParticularTasteDoctorsPrisonPatientSexualityInfantProceduresPsychiatristManifoldTeacher And StudentDoctors And PatientsDifferent AgesInvert Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction